Cambusdoon, an estate, with a modern mansion, in Alloway quoad sacra parish, Ayrshire, on the right bank of the river Doon, 2½ miles S by W of Ayr. It is the seat of the widow of Jas. Baird, Esq. (1803-76) of Cambusdoon and Auchmedden, M. P. for Falkirk 185157, and founder of the Baird Trust 1874, who owned in the shire 19,599 acres, valued at £9043 per annum, including £1000 for minerals.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)